For years, developers have had a Vagrant on their desktop, helping them quickly go from code to build to running application. Today, however, Vagrant gives way as Otto, its follow-up applications, arrives on the scene. Hosted at Ottoproject.io, Otto is built to ease the definition and deployment of multi-tier applications. The tool joins a retinue … continue reading
Read just about any article on DevOps and you’ll be sure to find liberal sprinklings of terms like “culture” and “collaboration” and “establishing strong feedback loops.” Go deeper and you’ll probably come across some head-scratching stuff like “anti-fragile,” “systems thinking,” and my own personal favorite: “learning from failure.” There’s nothing especially earth-shattering about learning from … continue reading
NEW YORK–Datapipe, a leader in secure managed hosting and cloud solutions for the enterprise, today announced a new suite of automation and orchestration services for its Managed Cloud for AWS solution. The new Datapipe Automation Services connect the enterprise with Datapipe automation experts who perform an audit of existing infrastructures, identify key opportunities for automation, … continue reading
Software developers are still a long way from deploying Hadoop distributions en masse in enterprise organizations. In a recent poll, SD Times asked developers to indicate what stage they’re currently at in the Hadoop deployment process. Forty percent of the 131 respondents answered that the Big Data elephant in the room is still hiding under … continue reading
Hortonworks announced it has signed an agreement to acquire SequenceIQ, a startup founded in February 2014 that provides open-source Hadoop deployment tools. According to a Hortonworks blog post, the company will integrate SequenceIQ technology, including its Cloudbreak elastic and cloud-agnostic deployment Hadoop-as-a-Service API into the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). The Hadoop distribution provider aims to … continue reading
Japanese enterprise technology company Hitachi has announced its plans to acquire Big Data analytics company Pentaho. Hitachi will add Pentaho’s open-source Big Data deployment platform to its portfolio, eventually merging Pentaho’s Big Data analysis and machine-learning capabilities into its Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) products. According to Hitachi’s announcement, the company’s plans for a shared analytics … continue reading
As Docker and application container software become more widespread in deployment automation, enterprises are jumping on the bandwagon in droves. Docker automation startup StackEngine published the results of its inaugural “State of Containers” survey, polling 745 respondents in the enterprise virtualization and cloud computing space. The survey found that 70% of respondents’ organizations are either … continue reading
The rise of cloud computing platforms forces developers to contend with managing hundreds of virtualized servers at a time. But one startup wants to make deployment as simple and ubiquitous a process as third-party and open-source tools have rendered writing and building code. Distelli is an agent-based SaaS platform that downloads to any kind of … continue reading
For this week’s GitHub project spotlight, we’re highlighting Shipit, a universal automation engine and deployment tool written in JavaScript. Capitalizing on the popularity of Node.js and previous GitHub Project of the Week io.js, Shipit adds another layer of streamlined simplicity to the JavaScript automation process. Built as an alternative to the Capistrano open-source script deployment … continue reading
When you have these issues in mind, you won’t need to be afraid of overhauling your online image … continue reading
From handling localization to deciding where to target your app, these rules cover everything from development to deployment … continue reading
Serena Release Manager v5 addresses the quality, speed and predictability of software releases … continue reading
